Monday, April 10, 2000
Top teams might be at bottom
A recent study conducted by two professors at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, suggests that the nation’s best college basketball teams have, on average, lower graduation rates. The researchers say they expected to find the opposite. The report was based on a statistical analysis of 97 universities fielding NCAA Division I-A football and basketball teams. The correlation was most evident at smaller institutions, with 15,000-20,000 students.

Colleges struggle with apparel issue
After nine months of meetings and demonstrations, University of Minnesota officials have conditionally joined the Worker Rights Consortium, a newly formed labor-monitoring organization which attempts to ensure that manufacturers of products bearing institutional logos provide fair labor conditions. The W.R.C. was formed in the wake of criticism by a national student organization that another monitoring body, the Fair Labor Association, to which UGA belongs, is compromised because its board includes representatives of companies being scrutinized by labor-rights activists.
Nike recently terminated its agreement to provide equipment and apparel for some athletic teams at Brown University, a founding member of the W.R.C., to protest W.R.C. policies. Columbia University recently voted to join the W.R.C. while maintaining its membership in the F.L.A.
----Matthew Winston
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